Russian President’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that he could not confirm the information regarding the iPhone ban in the presidential administration. He told this to reporters.
“Smartphones cannot be used for official purposes. “Any smartphone is a transparent mechanism,” he said.
According to him, smartphones cannot be used for negotiations and the transmission of official information.
Previously, employees of the internal political bloc of the administration given Order to get rid of iPhone smartphones by April 1 this year due to security concerns.
According to the newspaper’s sources, in March, AP employees must either throw away their iPhones or give them to children. At the same time, a debate arose among the participants of the seminar about the necessity of such a measure at first, but Sergey Kiriyenko, the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration, ended the discussion and set a deadline for the salvation of his employees. Apple equipment until April 1st.
This requirement is associated with the fact that these smartphones are more susceptible to hacking and spying by Western experts compared to other smartphones, while AP employees were advised to buy phones on Android, their Chinese counterparts or the Russian Aurora operating system.